Tachyon Labs is now 33 and 19 years old

In 1983 I was working at a computer-store-slash-add-on-board-manufacturer doing computer repair, programming, tech writing, training, and so on, and as part of my continuing education my boss encouraged me to use the state-of-the-art search engine of going through Byte and other computer magazines circling "bingo card" numbers for new hardware and software products I was interested in learning more about.

I filled out the bingo cards using my home rather than work address, and I thought I ought to have my own company name as well, to sound more respectable to all these businesses I was wanting to send me stuff. "Tachyon Labs" was the name I came up with, which seemed supremely capable of containing multitudes and covering everything I did -- whether you needed programming, art, mad science, writing, filmmaking, computer repair, baking, what have you, Tachyon Labs would get the job done!

I've continued to use the name happily ever after, and registered the domain tachyonlabs.com on February 27, 1997.

My children Sam and Arthur are now 28 and 22 years old

When I first started putting up web pages back in spring of 1995, I immediately made pages for/about each of my children and featuring many of their creations, interests, and accomplishments. And immediately afterward found out how quickly such pages get out of date -- seriously, if you put up a page about your baby that seems to you like the most beautiful page in the world, before you know it your "baby" will be years older and that beautiful page way out of date.

In that vein, the pictures to the left show me with my children Sam and Arthur when they were almost nine and almost three, and although you can still see the pages I was lovingly maintaining for them at the time here and here (plus our similarly-seriously- outdated games page), they have since gone on to running more of their own online lives/presences. These days among many many other places Sam can be found on Facebook and LinkedIn, and Arthur on Facebook and BoardGameGeek.

4 and 20 blackbirds web pages

I probably do have at least four and twenty web pages sorely in need of a good overhaul, but here are some of my more up-to-date pages: